There's one other advantage when you're learning a game, which is that the computerised one will enforce rules which you missed, or mis-interpreted. Of course, this becomes a disadvantage when you've played the game a few times and want to try some house rules.
You can randomise some variables without affecting the user experience, but I had unique HTTP-Accept headers. Some of those (e.g. language preferences) I can't change without affecting my user experience.
My choice of "North American" there was deliberate. The stereotype may be applicable to some extent to the USA, but less so to Canadians, Mexicans, residents of St Pierre and Miquelon, and anyone else who might label themselves as North Americans, since there isn't unanimous agreement on what constitutes North America.
If you want to be one of them deal with the BS associated with the label and your associates.
Unless you're a 20-stone U.S. American living in your mother's basement and fantasising about Natalie Portman and hot grits (whatever they are) you ought to be aware of the stupidity of generalisation, Mr Anonymous Coward. If you do fit that stereotype then I wonder whether you would agree with the statement, which you can certainly find people making, that all North Americans are murdering Christian imperialists.
(X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft You're just giving botnet operators an effective means of setting up a hitman agency, and they don't even have to get see the victims.
I just wish the OpenOffice.org guys would agree with themselves! According to the Edit menu Ctrl-E should select all text (possibly different if you're not running in es_ES locale), but when I press it it centres the text instead.
My highschool art teacher had a special scowl when he told us about the commonly heard phrase among the plebes, "I may not know anything about art, but I know what I like."
Nonsense. I'm not sure what the exact name of the charge is - news reports of the only conviction I've heard of say "charged with... offences under section 53 of RIPA" - but it would be something like "Failing to comply with a notice requiring disclosure of encrypted information".
I indent like that. Using -> to represent tab and . to represent space, I write
->->foo(arg1, ->->....arg2, ->->....arg3);
There's no "mixing" as such because there's a clear boundary between tabs (used for indentation) and spaces (used for alignment within a line).
Good point about functional languages. I do use spaces only for indentation when writing SML, but I forgot about that because I do it so rarely nowadays.
That's a nice way to rationalise it, but it doesn't really make sense. There isn't a "Linux Online" section, or a "Games Online" section, or a "Politics Online" section. If it's meant to be "Your Rights" then why not change it? (Of course, this story still doesn't fit in that category for anyone except Costarricenses, and should really be in Politics, but hey ho).
I have mused recently on whether a private prosecution against Gary McKinnon could be taken over by the CPS and stopped as not in the public interest. I think it would allow him to plead guilty to offences under the Computer Misuse Act, secure in the knowledge that a custodial sentence would be served in the UK, and argue that double jeopardy prevented his extradition. On the other hand, if his lawyers thought that would work as a strategy they would probably have attempted it by now.
Britain has been the subject of extended terror campaigns, and I suspect that the British police are more familiar with what a genuine terror threat sounds like than the average/. reader.
IRA terror threats were made by phone directly to the police or army. The point is to be able to blame the authorities for being too slow to evacuate people if your bomb kills someone. Throwing out a message on Twitter doesn't fit the profile of previous bombers in the UK.
Wil he just be taken on one side and told not to be such an asshole (er, sorry, "will it be explained to him that the police need to investigate such matters, because after all, how would it have been if the threat had been real and he had carried it out? It would be helpful if he kept that in mind in future"), or will things like the airport ban remain in place?
I would guess that they will try to get him to accept a caution. That saves the hassle of a trial, but still looks positive on the statistics.
Similarly, blogs seem to have a bad reputation here on Slashdot, but actually I'd say that they, along with commenters, tend to do a far better job of "reporting on something in the news, and giving further information" than the news "journalists" do.
Maybe it's my selective memory, but most of the anti-blog comments I recall seeing on Slashdot are along the lines of "Why is TFA a blog post which merely copy-pastes a news article? Why not skip the middle-man?" Some blogs have original content: others put as much effort in as the "journalists" who regurgitate press releases.
Broke it for me, you mean. If one person mixes tabs and spaces it's more likely to cause problems for other people than for the culprit, unless he uses multiple editors or multiple computers with different configurations for the same editor.
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*britalert* I'm sure Scotsmen aren't the only people who play sports.
There's one other advantage when you're learning a game, which is that the computerised one will enforce rules which you missed, or mis-interpreted. Of course, this becomes a disadvantage when you've played the game a few times and want to try some house rules.
But if I lock it with a 50 cent padlock then it's locked, but extremely easy to open.
I would understand "unsecured" to mean "no-one has attempted to secure it". If they've attempted and failed then it's badly secured and insecure.
You can randomise some variables without affecting the user experience, but I had unique HTTP-Accept headers. Some of those (e.g. language preferences) I can't change without affecting my user experience.
They launched a Java applet, which is perfectly capable of getting those details.
Why is the management of the Australian Government's Antarctic Division in the US?
You were modded flamebait because your valid reasoning went against the groupthink. It's always a danger of trying to discuss religion here.
Yeah, I know. I'm just shooting for some Funny here (because I feel like it, not because I believe it will gain me karma).
But if you're Christian, you shouldn't be worried about karma anyway ;)
Bother. I'll have to see what my imam has to say about that ;)
Why is it that online discussions always seem to jump straight to hasty generalizations?
Because all Slashdotters are idiots.
Hey, I already got modded flamebait for being perfectly reasonable, so why shouldn't I try to earn it by being outrageous?
My choice of "North American" there was deliberate. The stereotype may be applicable to some extent to the USA, but less so to Canadians, Mexicans, residents of St Pierre and Miquelon, and anyone else who might label themselves as North Americans, since there isn't unanimous agreement on what constitutes North America.
If you want to be one of them deal with the BS associated with the label and your associates.
Unless you're a 20-stone U.S. American living in your mother's basement and fantasising about Natalie Portman and hot grits (whatever they are) you ought to be aware of the stupidity of generalisation, Mr Anonymous Coward. If you do fit that stereotype then I wonder whether you would agree with the statement, which you can certainly find people making, that all North Americans are murdering Christian imperialists.
You missed a key word. Some Christian fundamentalists believe that D&D and M:tG have a real spiritual component. Not all of us do.
(X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
You're just giving botnet operators an effective means of setting up a hitman agency, and they don't even have to get see the victims.
I just wish the OpenOffice.org guys would agree with themselves! According to the Edit menu Ctrl-E should select all text (possibly different if you're not running in es_ES locale), but when I press it it centres the text instead.
My highschool art teacher had a special scowl when he told us about the commonly heard phrase among the plebes, "I may not know anything about art, but I know what I like."
As in, for example, the Pope?
Plus.. it's in this museum! These are trained professionals, they know what they're doing!
Or, in the words of one of the few modern artists whom I consider genuinely good, "Never underestimate the power of a big gold frame"
Nonsense. I'm not sure what the exact name of the charge is - news reports of the only conviction I've heard of say "charged with ... offences under section 53 of RIPA" - but it would be something like "Failing to comply with a notice requiring disclosure of encrypted information".
I saw Avatar in 3D in Spain for a bit less than the equivalent of 15 AUD. Normal tickets are about 75% of that.
I indent like that. Using -> to represent tab and . to represent space, I write
->->foo(arg1,
->->....arg2,
->->....arg3);
There's no "mixing" as such because there's a clear boundary between tabs (used for indentation) and spaces (used for alignment within a line).
Good point about functional languages. I do use spaces only for indentation when writing SML, but I forgot about that because I do it so rarely nowadays.
(P.S. You meant "monospaced fonts", right?)
That's a nice way to rationalise it, but it doesn't really make sense. There isn't a "Linux Online" section, or a "Games Online" section, or a "Politics Online" section. If it's meant to be "Your Rights" then why not change it? (Of course, this story still doesn't fit in that category for anyone except Costarricenses, and should really be in Politics, but hey ho).
I have mused recently on whether a private prosecution against Gary McKinnon could be taken over by the CPS and stopped as not in the public interest. I think it would allow him to plead guilty to offences under the Computer Misuse Act, secure in the knowledge that a custodial sentence would be served in the UK, and argue that double jeopardy prevented his extradition. On the other hand, if his lawyers thought that would work as a strategy they would probably have attempted it by now.
All criminal cases in the UK are Regina V. Defendant.
That's almost true, but there are rare exceptions: private prosecutions. See e.g. League Against Cruel Sports vs Tony Wright.
Britain has been the subject of extended terror campaigns, and I suspect that the British police are more familiar with what a genuine terror threat sounds like than the average /. reader.
IRA terror threats were made by phone directly to the police or army. The point is to be able to blame the authorities for being too slow to evacuate people if your bomb kills someone. Throwing out a message on Twitter doesn't fit the profile of previous bombers in the UK.
Wil he just be taken on one side and told not to be such an asshole (er, sorry, "will it be explained to him that the police need to investigate such matters, because after all, how would it have been if the threat had been real and he had carried it out? It would be helpful if he kept that in mind in future"), or will things like the airport ban remain in place?
I would guess that they will try to get him to accept a caution. That saves the hassle of a trial, but still looks positive on the statistics.
Maybe it's my selective memory, but most of the anti-blog comments I recall seeing on Slashdot are along the lines of "Why is TFA a blog post which merely copy-pastes a news article? Why not skip the middle-man?" Some blogs have original content: others put as much effort in as the "journalists" who regurgitate press releases.
Broke it for me, you mean. If one person mixes tabs and spaces it's more likely to cause problems for other people than for the culprit, unless he uses multiple editors or multiple computers with different configurations for the same editor.